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Why the Star Wars I-III Trilogy Does Not Work
Why the Star Wars I-III Trilogy Does Not Work as Well as the IV-VI Trilogy (a Five Minute Thought On the Way to Women And Art Class):
- No one (or at least not me) would think to call Star Wars IV "the introduction one" or V "the romance one" or VI "the one with the big battle". I think that oversimplifying and telling us what to expect is dumb. In the original trilogy, they ALL had big battles. They ALL had romance.
- They ALL had entertaining creatures that spoke foreign languages instead of strangely-accented English. If you know me, you know that this is my beef in EVERY movie, not just SW.
- I think movies these days, to quote Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park, get carried away with what they can do and don't stop to think about what they should do. Special FX are cool when they're appropriate, but above all, you need a story and dialogue that reach out and grab people.
Off I go.
srah - Monday, 19 November 2001 - 1:04 PM
Tags: movies, star wars
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My thought was that the essential difference was the lack of memorable moments. F'r instance: when Leia unfreezes Han and he says, "who's there?" and she says "someone who loves you" and he says "Leia"--ah, just the MEMORY of it makes you sigh...no one quotes 1-3 because there's nothing there to quote.